• Diana Darvey
  In the nearly four-minute number, which she sang in English, French and Spanish, Darvey wore a total of four costumes, including as a [ [[Category:English female dancers]]
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• Queenie Watts
  ...''' (born '''Mary Spenton'''; 21 July 1923 &nbsp;– 25 January 1980) was an English actress of film and television, as well as an occasional singer.<ref name=" [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Hy Hazell
  {{Short description|English film actress (1919–1970)}} ...boy]] in pantos, she became a favourite. She established a reputation as "English [[pantomime]]'s most distinguished post war principal boy". For years she w
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• Violet Carson
  {{Use British English|date=August 2011}} [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Diana Coupland
  ...-03-21}}</ref> – 10 November 2006), billed as '''Diana Coupland''', was an English actress, best remembered for her role in the sitcom ''[[Bless This House (B [[Category:English film actresses]]
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• Binnie Hale
  ...e "Binnie" Mary Hale-Monro''' (22 May 1899 &ndash; 10 January 1984) was an English actress, singer and dancer. She was one of the most successful musical thea ...th 1924).<ref name=AllmusicBio/><ref name=Green/> In 1924, she married the English actor [[Jack Raine]],<ref>"Miss Binnie Hale: Quiet Marriage of Popular Revu
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• Jack Hulbert
  ...ugust 2015}}</ref><ref>Hartley, 2013, ''A Historical Dictionary of British Women.'' p. 120</ref> * Hartley, Cathy. (2013). ''A Historical Dictionary of British Women''. Routledge
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• Anna Russell
  ...Russell-Brown'''; 27 December 1911{{spaced ndash}}18 October 2006) was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang an ...he toured throughout North America, Britain, Australia and the rest of the English-speaking world.
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• Patsy Rowlands
  ...ary 2005 | access-date=21 November 2013 }}</ref> was an [[w:English people|English]] [[w:actress|actress]] who is best remembered for her roles in the [[Carry ...Soon]]'', ''[[Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial)|Vanity Fair]]'', ''Murder Most English'', and ''[[Bottom (TV series)|Bottom]]'' for the [[BBC]]. In 2002, she was
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• Joan Sims
  '''Irene Joan Marion Sims''' (9 May 1930 – 27 June 2001) was an English actress, best remembered for her roles in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carr ...get... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. ''They'' like to do the jokes."}}
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• John Inman
  '''Frederick John Inman''' (28 June 1935 – 8 March 2007) was an English actor and singer best known for his role as [[Mr. Humphries]] in ''[[Are Yo ...pointed".<ref name="TV Week">Shann, Rosalie. "His Biggest Fans are Adoring Women", ''[[TV Week]]'', 27 January 1980, p. 13.</ref>
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• Max Bygraves
  ...ves''' (adopted in honour of [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]]), was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own telev Bygraves married [[Women's Auxiliary Air Force|WAAF]] sergeant Gladys "Blossom" Murray in 1942. The
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• Dora Bryan
  ...ies into film acting, generally playing supporting roles. She often played women of easy virtue—for example in ''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol] * ''[[Women of Twilight]]'' (1952) - Olga
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...E]] (''{{nee}}'' '''Phipps'''; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English [[diseuse|diseuse]], singer, actress and writer. She was known for the song ...er middle-class London childhood. Among her friends was [[Virginia Graham (English writer)|Virginia Graham]], with whom she kept up a lifelong correspondence,
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• Jack Buchanan
  ...war, attracting favourable notices as a "knut"<ref>defined by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as "a fashionable or showy young man"</ref> in the mould of Ge His productions included ''[[The Women (play)|The Women]]'', ''The Body was Well Nourished'', ''Waltz Without End'', ''It's Time to
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• Hermione Gingold
  ...State Athletics}}</ref> 9 December 1897{{spaced ndash}}24 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric character. ...she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress [[Hermione Baddeley]]. Later she played formidable elderly characte
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• Cicely Courtneidge
  ...n'', 7 August 1917, p. 8</ref>{{#tag:ref|A "knut", defined by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as "a fashionable or showy young man", was a popular term in e [[Category:English women comedians]]
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• George Melly
  '''Alan George Heywood Melly''' (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 19 * "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" b/w "It's The Bluest Kind of Blues" (PRT Records 7P 318) (19
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• Patricia Routledge
  ...3|work=[[BBC News]]|date=12 June 2004}}</ref> born 17 February 1929) is an English actress, singer and broadcaster. For her role as [[Hyacinth Bucket]] in the ...3|access-date=14 November 2013}}</ref> She gained a degree with honours in English Language and Literature.<ref name="CatholicHerald"/> She was involved in th
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• Gracie Fields
  ...ng her strong, native Lancashire accent.<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fields-gracie-1898-1979 Fields ...acie-1898-1979|title=FIELDS, Gracie (1898-1979) - English Heritage|website=English-heritage.org.uk}}</ref> Her career accelerated from this point, with [[Dram
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